About
A room, a subject, and people willing to be honest
TheGrid Sessions has been running since 11 May 2019. What it does has grown; what it is for has not changed.
Relationship is currency
Why it exists
Most of what makes a life work runs through other people — the job you heard about, the collaborator who took the risk with you, the friend who told you the truth when it would have been easier not to. We treat those relationships as if they maintain themselves. They do not.
TheGrid Sessions started as a small set of conversations about that: what actually makes a relationship work, and what quietly erodes one. The conversations are rooted in universal principles of goodness and ethical behaviour, which sounds grand until you are in the room and it is simply a group of people being straight with one another.
It is a closed community, and that is deliberate. Honesty needs a room where people have met before. That is why membership is something you come to in person rather than something you buy.
What we are for
Three things, and what they look like
Community & networking
- Encouraging creative ideas
- Expanding your social network
- Inspiring interactions amongst community members
Learning
- Improving the quality of your interactions and relationships
- Understanding vulnerability, empathy and boundaries
Support
- A platform for seamless collaboration amongst members
- Brand exposure through newsletters and campaigns
2019–2025
What that has added up to
Attendance has always been recorded as “300+”, “1,100+” and so on, so each figure is a floor rather than a count. The year-by-year breakdown is on the homepage.
- Gatherings held
- 64
- Partnerships
- 75
- People reached
- 22,400+
What we make
There is a studio behind the room
The events are documented by people in the community, which is why there is seven years of photography rather than seven years of phone footage. The same team works with member brands.
Companies sponsor the events too, which is how a good deal of it gets paid for. What sponsorship looks like.
Visual content
A team of creatives who shoot and cut the community's own events, and brands' work alongside them.
Storytelling
Episodes and series rather than posts. The photo-storytelling strand grew out of this.
Influencer marketing
Members who already have an audience, working with brands who want a real one.
How it is organised
Three groups
Not tiers of one thing. Each is a distinct room with its own purpose, and you can belong to more than one.
Instagram
Free
TheGrid Associate
A broadcast and inquiries group that serves as an entry-level guild for potential members. This is where most people start.
WhatsApp
Subscription
TheGrid Community
A social, interactive, educational and networking group. The heart of the thing, and the hardest to get into.
Instagram
Subscription
TheGrid Business
An informative, educational, interactive and collaborative handshake guild for business enthusiasts.